The count is macabre. In its edition of this Saturday, January 18, Le Soleil reveals that the Saint-Louis breach caused no less than 11 deaths in one week. Worse, the toll has continued to rise since the relief channel was dug in 2003. In 22 years, it has caused between 500 and 650 deaths, estimates the same source.
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“Dug in 2003 to save the 300-year-old city from the rising waters which, that year, threatened to submerge the island, this relief channel, like a cancer metastasizing in a body, has finished eating away at the strip of land which separates the river and the Atlantic Ocean. The gap, [qui] measured 4 meters at the time, widened to 15 km. A chasm. […]. The fishermen who use it [comme] shortened, and the ecosystem pays a high price,” the newspaper worries.
